The pollies were right! I've been economically devastated by the money I wasted on Y2K.

The tally thus far:

1. A pint of mayo expired before I found it: $ 0.78.

2. Weevils discovered my 50 lbs sack of rice: $11.50.

3. I decided I don't like Beef-a-roni, and neither does my niece: $ 2.48.

4. Too many potato flakes, too little time: $12.88.

5. Ants in the Meow Mix: $ 6.00.

As you can see, at this rate, I will be filing for Chapter 11 before year's end.

On the bright side, the wine and Raisin Bran stores have been almost totally depleted. And so far the toilet paper is still pretty fresh...

-- Brooke B. Broke (hopeless doomer@poorhouse.com), May 03, 2000

Answers

You can get your money back! Join our class-action suit against Ed Yourdon. Send $2000.0 to Mako, Mako and Bako, PO 2000, Chicago.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), May 03, 2000.

We pollies tried to tell you so! But you silly doomers wouldn't listen. Now eat that stuff! There are starving people in the world, you know! Children even. Do it for the children please.

OR, you doomer you! YOU will be responsible for THE DEATHS OF MILLIONS STARVING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR PREPS!!! EAT UP! (and don't forget the crow).

-- smiley (8o)@8o).8o(), May 03, 2000.

Smiley,

No, that was sooo wrong...chuckling though.

I have wasted nothing gave most of it away. Spent lots. Brooke, you need to see the thread someone brought up about the past with all of us. I havent commented, tooo embarrassed.

Yes, I was a doomer, yes, I relied on information on the net...but thru it all, I did get thick skin. I AM still here there is the proof.

---never thought I'd survive on this board.

-- consumer (shh@aol.com), May 04, 2000.

Consumer,

I'm sure that you save a bundle by not buying undies or pantyhose! 8-)

(I'm teasing, really!)

Here's how to *really* prep for the planetary lineup tomorrow:

unopened box of tinfoil

jar of peanut butter, knife

box of crackers

gallon of water, jar of Tang

sunblock

good book to read

Go sit on a Lake Erie beach. Cover most of your body with tinfoil. Use sunblock on any exposed skin. Nibble on peanutbutter crackers and drink the Tang. Answer any weird questions from passersby with quotations from Governor Taft's State of the State speech. You've then be well-prepared for most disasters.

As for me, I'll still be cutting the lawn...

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), May 04, 2000.

That damn box of canned goods which I had leftover from preps has set up camp in the back of my wagon and refuses to move.

Then I think about the current famine in Ethiopia and wonder-Why won't that box pick itself up and walk itself to the nearest food collection center. Stubborn box, that.

I will just have to have a good talk with it this weekend and maybe it will give up its resistance.

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), May 04, 2000.

K:

ROFLMAO.,,,so right, did save on that. Had that one coming to.

FS,

If the box puts up any type of resistance, shoot it. :-}

-- consumer (shh@aol.com), May 04, 2000.